Intention: I become a murderess by repeating inwords the lives of other murderesses.

some lives of murderessesJ U N E 1 9 7 3

I become a murderess.I'm born in the late autumn or winter of 1827.Troy, New York.My childhood is happy, and my parents allow me to do

whatever I please as long as I, by my actions, don't infringe ontheir high social standing. My father is a great and wealthyman, a tall man, whom I look up to. As a child, among my dolls,I feel safe. I will never die. No one can hurt me. My mother,my father, my two older sisters, my younger sister, and mybrother often ignore me, or promise to love me, give me apresent, then don't; and I cry. My name at this time is Char-lotte Wood.

1 don't remember any of my childhood before I was 6 yearsold when I start learning to read. My eldest sister marries abaronet and lives in England; my second elder sister marries adoctor and moves to Scotland. I'm an obedient child: 1 stub-